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(11) | EP 2 949 472 A3 |
| (12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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| (54) | PRINTER AND EXPENDABLE SUPPLY FOR PRINTER |
| (57) A printer includes an expendable supply, a detector that detects at least one of
a power-on operation, a resume from an energy-saving mode and a new installation of
an expendable supply, a determiner that determines whether or not a recommended limit
of the expendable supply has passed, a warning generator that generates a warning
for notifying that a usable limit of the expendable supply will come soon if the recommended
limit has already passed, and a memory storage that stores a warning cycle and a last
warning generation. When the recommended limit has passed and the power-on operation,
the resume or the new installation is detected, the warning generator generates a
warning [1] when the last warning generation is not stored in the memory storage,
or [2] when the last warning generation is stored in the memory storage and the warning
cycle has elapsed from the last warning generation.
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